It is hard to imagine a female bodybuilder without beautiful, toned up hips. Although hip area is formed with two independent muscle groups, we offer you to work on both of them at the same time, since most of the good exercises load them simultaneously. Continue reading »
Breasts area is one of the most problematic zones in female body. Many women are mistaken by believing that weight trainings boost the breasts size (i.e. mammary glands). Unfortunately this is not so since mammary glands mainly consist of fatty tissues. On the other hand, you can develop chest muscles located under the breasts. This way you can enlarge the size, the clavicles will not stick out too much, the breasts will be supported by muscles, and they will be lifted a bit and will be more expressive. The breast exercises practiced for this are quite simple, yet effective. Continue reading »
Your nutrition should be one of your major priorities when your goal is to raise your muscular development. What you eat and how you eat has greater importance than the training scheme itself. Gym takes about an hour of your life a day, while the other 23 hours have much greater effect on how fast your muscles develop and to which extent. Continue reading »
As you train in the gym, keep in mind that excessive exercise can lead to a considerable loss of sight. And in some cases, it may cause complete blindness. Brazilian eye specialists have recently discovered the relationship between intensive workouts and loss of sight. Continue reading »
It doesn’t matter how intensive your workouts are. If your muscles are covered under fat, you will still look plump. Only your diet and exercise intensity matter. Healthy diet is the easiest way to lose fat. Make sure you eat right, not little. Many women just do not eat enough. When they feel unhappy about the way their belly or hips look, women stop eating at all hoping to lose fat there. And that’s the worst idea you can come up with. Continue reading »
As you do cycling in a gym, has it ever occurred to you that the energy you create could be transferred into something more useful than just your sweat. Now your energy could do a lot more. Architect Mitchell Joachim says that his idea could help transfer the workout vigor into another level where it could be harnessed for transportation of people along New York rivers. River gym is a floating human-powered gym that would make a real difference to your workouts. Continue reading »
Most people believe sports food is unhealthy. These beliefs could be explained by different reasons which, however, have little to do with the facts. Here are top 4 myths about sports food: sports food is unnatural, it overburdens the digestive system, it can be replaced with natural foods, it is very expensive. This article debunks these myths. Continue reading »
Famous American runner Marion Jonesasked the American President, George Bush, to relax the verdict she received. The athlete was sentenced to spend six month in jail for giving false testimony to the FBI agents. Representative of the Department of Justice of USA said that Johns has sent the petition to the President. Such documents are reviewed and after that the Department of Justice announces recommendation whether the punishment should be relaxed or not. In most cases the requests of petitions are not granted. Continue reading »
Determining your body type means doing half the work towards the perfect figure. Think for yourself, can different “types” really do the same workout scheme? No they can’t, there is no doubt about that! People with different body types react differently to the same training system. An exercise perfect for one person can be useless for the other one. Each type needs a specially designed individual training program. Only such program can provide fast and effective results. Many bodybuilders spend a lot of time for the search of their own training system, but the worst thing is that ineffective trainings destroy the faith in sport and steal motivation. There are three major body types which are called somatotypes. Continue reading »
Fans of the thriller “Terminator” will no longer see Arnold Schwarzenegger play the leading role. Austrian bodybuilder and actor Roland Kickinger will play in his place in the first part of the trilogy “Terminator: Salvation”. This was announced by “Ain’t It Cool News”. Continue reading »
Intensive workouts often lead to muscle pain, or myalgia. It can make one exercise less or less intensive and some – even give up exercising. It’s not easy to make a bodybuilder give up working out in the gym, but anyway myalgia makes this process quite uncomfortable. There are different ways to get rid of muscle pain. One of them, and an easy one, has been recently found by the scientists. Continue reading »
Arm bending exercises with dumbbells are easy to do, plus they give a number of options to work on biceps in different ways. The most effective exercises for building up the muscle volume are called basic. Those exercises involve several joints simultaneously as opposed to the monoarticular ones. Most of the classic biceps exercises, however, are of the latter type. Continue reading »
Australian scientists believe that coffee helps restore muscles after physical activity. The scientists conducted an experiment on professional cyclists and discovered a complex mechanism which restores the muscles much faster due to the coffee effect. The results of the study apply to other sports as well, particularly to bodybuilding. Continue reading »
For the sake of a beautiful body people quit smoking, then change their diet and sleep more, and furthermore buy fancy bottles with sport additives. They go through all those efforts to make their body attractive. For the sake of beauty they have to change their lifestyle, but while staying away from cakes may be an easy task, how about alcohol? Sometimes, for instance at the parties, it is impossible to say no to this drink; but how will it affect the training? Will the stamina go down, will some fat crop up? Let’s investigate what alcohol is and how it affects the bodybuilder’s organism. Continue reading »
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) proposed to enter Viagra in the stimulant list. Specialists from the agency believe, that the substance sildenafil, presented in Viagra, enhances the blood flow not only to the man’s genitals, but to his muscles as well. Continue reading »
This exercise has a couple of complexity levels. Let’s introduce a five-point scale for push-ups; 1 will mean low complexity level, 5- very high level. But keep in mind, that this scale considers only the complexity of different exercises. Complexity is not synonymous to effectiveness. A highly complex exercise can be useless, or vice-versa. The following overview is helpful only when choosing the bodybuilding proficiency stage to practice the particular exercise version. More complex exercises suit higher bodybuilding experience. Continue reading »
You have probably heard about Paddy Doyle - he is currently a respected world champion in full push-ups. He has a wide history of records. Once, he did 4100 push-ups with a 23 kg box tied on his back. A few years back he did 7860 push-ups at some pub. His one-hour record is 1700 push-ups, while a twenty-four-hour one is 37000. Exactly that much, there is no mistake here. Doing push-ups is a great exercise for those who wish to develop the muscle mass, especially for bodybuilders. Continue reading »
Sleep is one of the most valuable factors in bodybuilding. Overtraining is simply a lack of rest, said Joe Weider long time ago before we were even born. Rest, sleep in particular, is essential for successful muscle building. While you are sleeping the cortisol level stabilizes and the growth hormone level increases. Under sleep deprivation you can not develop large muscles no matter how great your training program is. Once in the wakeful state, our body concentrates on the external environment; this includes work, relationships, trainings stress, and even meals. Sleep is the period, when our body gets a chance to take care of itself and treat itself from within. Continue reading »
You all have seen those vibration platforms in the gyms, but have probably never used them. Bodybuilders normally spend enough time working out to build different muscle groups. You also plan your day, eat a balanced diet rich in all necessary nutrients and have enough rest to build a really muscular body. But did you know, that vibration tables can also help build muscles? Continue reading »
Sport drinks get more and more popular those days. The market is filled with different drinks of this kind, while each manufacturer announces his product to be the best one out there. It does not matter what brand you prefer to drink, what matters is how you drink it. Energy drinks are designed for people who train 60 minutes and over, or train in high-temperature environments. How does the body absorb the nutrients and liquid depends on the ratio they pass from the stomach to the thin section of intestines. Continue reading »
